The Patient As the Payer: Self-Pay, Bad Debt, and the Erosion of Hospital Finances
Health Populi
SEPTEMBER 13, 2022
to reveal trends on health care providers’ ability to collect patient service revenue. The first chart quantifies that bad debt attributable to patients’ self-pay payments after insurance kicks in: that category of bad debt grew by five times between 2018 and 2021, from 11% to nearly 58%.
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